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Levi’s Stadium, where the Broncos and Panthers will tangle in the Golden State’s golden anniversary Super Bowl, bills itself as the most technologically advanced stadium in the world. How could it be otherwise for the newest home to an NFL team right in the heart of Silicon Valley? Sitting just a mile from corporate sponsor Intel’s headquarters, with… Read More »

The world’s Going Mobile: The Who’s song about life on the road has taken on a prophetic new meaning in the smartphone era; unfortunately, mobile networks are typically about as secure as a tent trailer. There are now over 7 billion mobile subscriptions, over 30% of those with smartphones, and global mobile data traffic grew by 69% last… Read More »

LTE and Wi-Fi are finally bridging the gap between cellular and wireless LANs, enabling UC for the smartphone era Mobile IP telephony is nothing new, however the innovation has come from app developers, not carriers. Over the top messaging (OTT) services like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, WeChat, Google Hangouts and iMessages/Facetime have displaced traditional carrier SMS for text messaging… Read More »

Lost in the alphabet soup that is Google’s new holding company is one of its many experiments in changing the business rules for network services while nudging the technology in a direction that ultimately benefits consumers. No, not Fiber, although it’s a fantastic broadband disruptor for those that can get it, but Project Fi, Google’s mobile service. After… Read More »

Don’t just worry about data security on hotspots. Hotspot providers culling metadata pose a bigger threat to privacy Public hotspots have become the water fountains and restrooms of the digital age: amenities expected of every public venue. But as I wrote in a previous column, they can be a a privacy and security minefield, where the combination of few controls, little oversight and… Read More »

Now that both Amazon and Apple have made streaming an included perk of their primary products , wondering how it changes the market. Will enough people see the combo as good enough, ditching NFLX?
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